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MLST #78 - Prof. NOAM CHOMSKY (Special Edition)
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Large Language Models - The Road to Nowhere
Large language models such as gpt three, are receiving huge investment and are being hyped beyond belief. This is happening despite very strong theoretical arguments for the futility of learning language from data alone. The combinatorial complexity of language is on a scale which would eclipse any earthly data set. There's also this problem of the so called missing text, that is to say, human cognition extrapolates from common knowledge. In order to understand text, we can ascertain background knowledge which is actually communicated in the text. We believe that research into large language models is what francois chalet recently called make believe a i and is thus the road to nowhere.
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